Donald Trump compared the Green New Deal to the special counsel probe on Tuesday, saying at an event in Louisiana that they're both hoaxes devised by Democrats.

Touring a liquefied natural gas export facility that that opened up earlier that day, the president launched into a familiar attack on windmills and Democrats' renewable energy platform.

'The Green New Deal! Everybody go home! You just lost your jobs! The Green New Deal is, that's a hoax like the hoax I just went through. I'm not sure, that might be a bigger one, and mine was pretty big. Mine was unlimited,' he said, going off script.

'Think of it: The Green New Deal, under that deal -- I didn't have this, this isn't down. ... Under that deal, everybody in this room gets fired! All of the thousands of guys and women standing on these buildings get fired. They go home.'

He said the Green New Deal is a 'radical plan' and promised not to let left-wing activists undermine American jobs. He also ripped countries in the European Union for buying gas from Russia and boasted that the U.S. is now energy independent: 'We don't need anybody.'

President Donald Trump said tuesday in Louisiana that the Democrat-supported 'Green New Deal' would be disastrous for energy jobs

The Green New Deal is an ambitious set of policy proposals meant to realign America's economy toward the primary goal of solving climate change; freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is its loudest cheerleader

Trump ripped countries in the European Union for buying oil from Russia and boasted that the U.S. is now energyindependent: 'We don't need anybody'

'We do not believe in socialism, okay? Is that alright to say? I think that's okay. I think so. If we had socialism here, you'd have nothing standing. And if it was standing from previous generations, it would be falling down right now,' he said.

The president said under his leadership, America has a soaring economy and has improved its national security by reducing its dependence of foreign sources of energy.

'You are not only making our nation wealthier, but you are making America safer by building a future of American energy independence. We are independent,' he told residents of Hackberry. 'We don't need anybody. We don't need anybody.'

With European Commissioner for the Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič standing behind him at the remarks, he complained about European countries buying their natural gas from Russia.

'And we don't need to be ripped off by the rest of the world, either, because those days are over,' he said. 'We used to be the leader, but we’re going to be the leader again.'

He said the LNG plant he was visiting 'could soon supply' more than 25 percent of the natural gas the European Union purchased in 2018.

Trump said, 'This extraordinary turnaround is possible because, under my administration, we have ended the war on American energy and we have ended the economic assault on our wonderful energy workers. And you were under assault.'

Backing off slightly, he promised U.S. allies buying from rival sources, 'We'll sell you a lot of natural gas.'

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Trump toured the Cameron liquified natural gas export facility on Tuesday in Hackberry, Louisiana before railing against the Green New Deal in a speech to workers

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, one of the 23 Democrats vying for Trump's job, is backing the Green New Deal proposal as a cure for the 'pain of the climate crisis'

new York City Mayuor Bill de Blasio, who could launch his own White House bid soon, rallide in the lobby of Trump Tower on Monday to promote the Green New Deal

If the U.S. had to, he said it could go back to relying on foreign sources of energy, but 'it just works out pretty well that way' that it no longer has to, because of increased domestic output. 'But any time we want, we can stop,' he insisted.

Trump used the afternoon remarks at the newly-opened facility, which has two more expansions planned, to gripe that the EU and other nations have been taking advantage of the U.S. for more than 20 years. The rant that overlapped with stalled China trade talks.

'I said before, they're just as tough as China. They're just a little bit smaller. They're pretty tough, too. They're all tough,' he said of America's western allies. 'When they're used to taking advantage of your country, they all get much tougher than they should be.'

Šefčovič told press traveling with the president on the plane ride to a second stop, 'We are ready to cooperate in this constructive way.'

'I think the relationship is very complex,' he said of Trump's tear. 'So from time to time we need to discuss things.'

President Trump said the Green New Deal would cost everyone in his audience their jobs immediately

Trump said wind farms are 'bird cemeteries,' returning to a well-worn but questionable contention that the facilities kill birds by the thousands

Trump used the speech to highlight his plans to drop out of the Paris climate accord, claiming he'd save the U.S. a trillion dollars by ending American participation.

'No longer will we allow other countries to tie America's hands and take America’s jobs and hurt America's energy,' he said.

And he revisited a claim as he slashed his political foes that windmills are bird cemeteries. 'If you go under a windmill, you see them all over the place. Not a good situation. But that's what they were counting on: wind,' he said. 'And when the wind doesn’t blow, you don’t watch television that night.'

The president won Louisiana in the 2016 presidential election – a fact he pointed out Tuesday before declaring his love for the state and his job.

'I do. Despite all of the stuff that we go through and despite being in the swamp of Washington,' he said as he gushed about being president.

Referencing his promise to 'drain the swamp' if voters sent him to Washington, he proclaimed: 'We are knocking the hell out of the swamp creatures, as we call them.'

'But I love getting up in the morning. I love what I do, because I'm doing a service for millions of people. And I love it,' he said. 'Well, jobs are the same thing. You've got to love it, and if you don't love it, get something else,' he advised plant workers.

He said of the American economy, 'So not only do you have rising wages, you have choice. You can go out if you're unhappy with your job. If you don't like the boss, you don't like something, go out. You have six, seven, eight alternatives.

'And you'll find something that you really do love and you really do look forward to waking up in the morning and going to work,' he said.

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Trump claims Green New Deal 'is a hoax like the hoax I just went through'